Monday, January 18, 2021
{Release Day Blitz} THE INVITATION by Vi Keeland
Sunday, January 17, 2021
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 18 January 2021
What I Read Last Week:
Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz
Currently Reading:
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
I devoured this series when I was younger. I couldn't read the books fast enough. But I've tried rereading it twice now and I'm just not feeling it. I mean it's like I know exactly what's going to happen and I can't focus on the book. Maybe it's a read-once-love-it-but-don't-reread kind of book for me. It happens sometimes.
Next Read
Serpent's Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
I Can't Wait For... The Nature of Witches
by Rachel Griffin
YA, Paranormal, Fantasy
eBook, Hardcover, 362 pages
June 1, 2021 by Sourcebooks Fire
Blurb:
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, an Everwitch whose rare magic is tied to every season.
In Autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. It's wild and volatile, and the price of her magic―losing the ones she loves―is too high, despite the need to control the increasingly dangerous weather.
In Winter, the world is on the precipice of disaster. Fires burn, storms rage, and Clara accepts that she's the only one who can make a difference.
In Spring, she falls for Sang, the witch training her. As her magic grows, so do her feelings, until she's terrified Sang will be the next one she loses.
In Summer, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she loves...before she loses Sang, her magic, and thrusts the world into chaos.
Monday, January 11, 2021
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Bookish and Non-Bookish Goals for 2021
Sunday, January 10, 2021
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 11 January 2021
What I Read Last Week:
Crier's War by Nina Varela
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Currently Reading:
Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz
I have watched the Lifetime series 3 times but I have never actually read the book. I know that the two are vastly different in certain ways but I'm hoping I can separate one from the other once I start this tonight.
Next Read
The Last Witness by Claire McFall
Sunday, January 3, 2021
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 4 January 2021
What I Read Last Week:
Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston
Currently Reading:
Crier's War by Nina Varela
I swear I tried to read this book once before and couldn't get into it but when I started reading it now it was clear that I have never attempted this one before. I'm enjoying it and about halfway through. I could do with a little less on how the government/rebellion is run and more on the development of Crier and Ayla's romance though. I feel it coming up and it's kind of thrown at you... not sure how well it will work on page. We'll see.
Next Read
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Why Harper's Island Is The Best Mini-Series You've (Probably) Never Heard Of...
Allow me to let you in on an unusual New Year's Eve tradition of mine. For the past five or so years I've binge-watched all thirteen episodes of the horror/mystery mini-series Harper's Island.
Never heard of it? That's okay, most people I mention it to can't remember its 2009 limited run on CBS.
About Harper's Island:
Seven years after a series of murders claimed the lives of her mother and five others, Abby Mills returns to her hometown of Harper's Island to attend the wedding of her best friend, Henry Dunn, to heiress Trish Wellington. There's no happily ever after, though, as a serial killer begins picking off family members and friends one by one.
With a widely recognizable cast who blend together so well the viewer is hooked immediately onto the show as the guests wait on a yacht for all the stragglers to arrive before setting sail to Harper's Island, a fictional island off the coast of Seattle. But this is no quaint sitcom, which is abundantly clear when the first murder occurs in the first 10-15 minutes of the show. And we're off.
While there are humorous moments in the first few episodes while the gruesome murders are taking place out of sight in the background the audience is well aware of the full picture... except for one thing. Who is the killer? The killer, never shown in full face until later could be anyone and as the audience guesses who and why - is it the original killer John Wakefield back from the dead? Or an insidious copy cat with an unclear motive - the characters soon begin to realize something is amiss as friends begin "disappearing" with weak explanations like heading back to the mainland for a hookup. Until all at once, it becomes clear that someone is targeting the wedding guests. Everyone is a suspect... trust no one... and watch your back.
As the cast begins to taper down viewers continue to try to figure out who the killer is. And bonus features reveal that even the cast didn't know who the killer was; only receiving each week's script a few days ahead of time and consuming it to see what would happen next.
It's addictive, if gory, the first time you watch it yet it's the kind of show you could watch over and over again because the it never gets old (although I do try to limit myself to once a year - my New Year's Eve tradition. And the killer? Well I won't tell you who it is, but I can say that I didn't figure it out until the second to last episode - although I had a hunch.
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Do you remember this show? Wasn't it the best?